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50 iPhone Apps for Web Designers & Developers

With a wonderful form factor, design, and functionality, the iPhone is a fantastic gadget for web designers and developers alike. You’ll be pleased to know that a huge range of software is available to make the iPhone (or iPod touch) a perfect companion.

We’ve hand-picked a selection of 50 fantastic applications. To give you a taste, the software covered will allow you to choose a color scheme, detect a font, update your website, manage a database, plan your to-do list, track time, bill a client, write a blog post, or view website statistics.

You’ll be amazed at what an iPhone is capable of!

 

Color

• CliqCliq – A gorgeous interface with photo extraction, palette saving and email support. Thoroughly impressive.
• Palettes – A productivity tool for creating and maintaining color palettes. You can grab colors from photographs, websites, or add them manually.
• ColorExpert – A similar app, capable of suggesting a colour scheme based upon a photograph or a chosen shade.
• Brushes – A powerful painting app with an advanced color picker, several realistic brushes, and extreme zooming. Great for throwing down a few colors for ideas.
• ColorSplash – Quickly and easily give photographs a dramatic feel by isolating a particular section of color.
• HEX RGB Colors Guide – Easy reference to HEX and RGB color codes – really useful.

 

Fonts & Typography

• FontShuffle (App Store) – A simple app for browsing and searching a database of different fonts.
• WhatTheFont – Take a picture of a font and have it uploaded to the web and analyzed in seconds to discover it’s name. Surprisingly accurate.

 

Coding & Development

• FTP On The Go – Allows you to log in to an FTP server, edit and modify files. Incredible functionality for an iPhone!
• PHP Cheat Sheet (App Store) – A simple collection of PHP syntax to offer a refresher course in the language.
• PHP Ref (App Store) – A quick reference “for all standard 5149 PHP functions”. Very thorough.
• RegEx Cheat Sheet – A pocket guide for regular expressions, something we all need a hand with from time-to-time.

 

Databases

• iMy – A full MySQL client for the iPhone for running custom database queries, saving of queries and exporting of results to Google spreadsheets.
• MobileCan – A full PostgreSQL client for the iPhone for running custom database queries.
• MySQL Cheat Sheet (App Store) – A guide to the inner workings of MySQL in your pocket.
• Wireless Database Viewer – Another tool for viewing various types of database on your iPhone. Apparently it supports MS Access, MS Excel, Oracle, SQL Server, FoxPro, dBase, and any ODBC compliant database.

 

Organize & Plan

• OmniFocus – Brings task management to your fingertips, and has a powerful location feature for letting you know what needs doing in your immediate vicinity!
• Things – Sync with the desktop version and manage your tasks in the coolest to-do list around.
• Google Calendar – Check your Google Calendar schedule from anywhere, with various views for displaying appointments.
• iBlueSky – A brainstorming application for getting ideas out of your head and into your iPhone.
• Bento – A fantastic personal database on-the-go, capable of managing any information you throw at it.

 

Time Tracking & Billing

• Jobs – Creating time sheets has never been simpler – add a job name, then press play to start tracking. Powerful, with no fluff.
• FreshBooks for iPhone – Track time on the go, then bill your clients. It’s as simple as that. Fully integrated with FreshBooks.
• Daylite Touch – A business productivity manager designed as a companion to Daylite on the Mac.
• iTimeSheet – Quickly record your daily activities, noting down which tasks took up various amounts of your time.
• TimeJot (App Store) – A time-based journal for exercise, meditating, or – most appropriately – tracking time spend on different clients, projects, or jobs.

 

Blogging

• BlogPress – A rich text editor, landscape editing, photo uploading and posting to multiple types of blog software.
• WordPress – The official WordPress iPhone app, for writing drafts and publishing on-the-go.
• iBlogger – A slightly confusing interface, but compatibility with a wide range of blog software.
• Pingle – A client for the Ping.FM social networking aggregator service, updating your status in several places at once.

 

Website Monitoring

• Ego – A delicious looking app for tracking Google Analytics, Twitter followers, RSS subscribers and Google Analytics.
• OSCStats (App Store) – Useful for checking statistics and sales for an OSCommerce system.
• Network Utility – Monitor server status and perform ping, portscan and WHOIS lookups from your phone.
• Analytics App – A dedicated application for monitoring Google Analytics data, with a range of different views.
• Mint Stats (App Store) – A simple tool for viewing a summary of visitors through a Mint installation.

 

Measurement

• Rulerplus – Lets you take measurements quickly and easily, and can be extended to make a longer ruler. We all know size matters…
• Scale Rule – A simple caliper for estimating the scale and size of an object.
• Caliper – Multi touch control for moving upper and lower caliper jaws simultaneously. Imperial and metric supported.
• RulerPhone – A clever take on a ruler application which uses any credit card to provide a means for offering scale.

 

File Sharing

• Air Sharing – Mount your iPhone or iPod touch as a wireless drive on any computer, drag-and-drop files, and view them on your device.
• Files – Allowing you to store and view files on your iPhone, secure access with a password, and view all major file types.
• ReaddleDocs – Capable of grabbing documents from almost any source you can imagine: computers, web sites, email attachments, MobileMe iDisk, online file storage apps and even other iPhones.
• Quickoffice Files – A simple way to view Microsoft Office documents on your iPhone.
• ZumoDrive (App Store) – A basic application for accessing your Zumo Drive remotely.

 

Other Utilities

Twitteriffic

• Full Screen Web Browser (App Store) – A good app to bear in mind when you want a full-screen browsing experience.
• NetNewsWire – One of the simplest native iPhone apps for keeping up to date with RSS news. Vital for any self-respecting designer!
• Reader (App Store) – Another good application for subscribing to various sources of RSS news (including Google Reader).
• Tweetie – A very popular iPhone Twitter client for keeping up-to-date with friends and colleagues.
• Twitteriffic – The original and, with new features in v2.0, arguably the best Twitter client in the App Store. Free for an ad-supported version.
• QAsvn (App Store) – Ending on a technical note, QAsvn allows you to monitor a subversion repository for changes.

Gmail Tip – How To Send E-Mail From Another Address Without “On Behalf Of”

Quite a few of you use Gmail’s custom “From:” to send messages with one of your other email addresses listed in place of your Gmail address. Since these messages are sent by Gmail’s servers but “from” a non-Gmail address, we have to include your original Gmail username in the “Sender” field of the message header to comply with mail delivery protocols and help prevent your mail from being marked as spam. Most email programs just display the “From” address and not the “Sender” field, but some (including versions of Microsoft Outlook) show these messages as coming “From username@gmail.com On Behalf Of customaddress@mydomain.com” which really annoyed people.
We heard your request for another option that wouldn’t show the “on behalf of” text loud and clear, and now there’s a new option that does just that. Instead of using Gmail’s servers to send the message, we’ll use the servers where your other email address lives. Since Gmail isn’t the originating domain, we don’t have to include “Sender” info in the header. No more “on behalf of.”

Here’s the difference. All custom “From:” addresses used to work like this:

Now, if your other email provider supports POP and/or IMAP access, you can choose to send your message like this instead:

To switch to this new method, go to the Accounts page under Settings, and click “edit info” from the “Send mail as” section. Then choose the option to “Use your other email provider’s SMTP servers.”
We recognize that your other address might not have a server that you can use to send outbound messages — for example, if you use a forwarding alias rather than an actual mailbox, or if your other email provider doesn’t support authenticated SMTP, or restricts access to specific IP ranges. For this reason, we’ve kept the original method as well. Check out our Help Center for further details on these two “send mail as” configuration options.
If you use Google Apps Premier or Education edition and would like to send mail as another address within your domain or within an aliased domain, no sweat. We do all the work behind the scenes so your original username won’t be listed in the “Sender” header, and your recipients won’t see “on behalf of.”

FreeAppAlert Notifies You When For-Pay iPhone Apps Become Free

There are thousands and thousands of iPhone applications, but you hardly have time to keep up with their pricing changes, let alone new releases. The FreeAppAlert web service will keep you updated.

You can set up FreeAppAlert’s site to notify you via email, twitter, or RSS about the newest free iPhone apps, including those making the jump from behind a pay wall. If you don’t want to be bothered with notifications, you can browse the site by date when you’re in the mood to stock up on new apps.

If you find a gem in the archives, make sure to throw a link in the comments to share the wealth.

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A Few Recent Photos of the Kids

Here are a few recent photos taken of the kids playing, you can view them by CLICKING HERE, about all they have in common is that they were taken with my new iPhone.